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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Cutting Teeth - A Shout Out

One
sweltering late-summer weekend, a group of thirty-something Brooklyn
parents and their children gathers at a shabby beach house on Long
Island.
A rusted sign welcomes them to “Eden,” but their trip is a far cry from
paradise. For two days, each parent will wrestle with secrets he or she
can no longer ignore against the chaotic backdrop of five young
children’s relentless demands.
Julia Fierro’s debut novel, CUTTING TEETH (July 7, 2015; St. Martin’s Griffin),now in paperback delivers razor-sharp commentary on the precariously comfortable lives of a tight knit Park Slope playgroup.

Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD
behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that
his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child, forcing him to
disrupt the life he loves. Allie, one half of a two-mom family, can't
stop imagining ditching her wife and kids in favor of her art. Tiffany,
comfortable with her amazing body but not so comfortable in the
upper-middle class world the other characters were born into, flirts
dangerously, and spars with her best friend Leigh, a blue blood secretly
facing financial ruin and dependent on the magical Tibetan nanny
everyone else covets. Throughout the weekend, conflicts intensify and
painful truths surface. Friendships and alliances crack, forcing the
house party to confront a new order.

Cutting Teeth is about
the complex dilemmas of early midlife--the vicissitudes of friendship,
of romantic and familial love, and of sex. It's about class tension,
status hunger, and the unease of being in possession of life's greatest
bounty while still wondering, is this as good as it gets? And, perhaps
most of all, Julia Fierro's warm and unpretentious debut explores the
all-consuming love we feel for those we need most, and the sacrifice and
compromise that underpins that love.

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As a mother of two adorable children, Julia has firsthand experience in parenting circles in Brooklyn. She runs a tumblr called
Parenting Confessional where parents (and nannies!) post the thoughts they cannot speak out loud. She also wrote
an essay on the Huffington Post about a time a photo of her daughter went viral.

The day "Claire" from Lost mentioned me!

Pat Says:

Pat Conroy just told me that I take a foul art and give it a queenly air, then he kissed my hand.

Decatur Book Festival, 2014

Books that "Stuck"

In no particular order: Bill Bryson and James Herriot....I have re-read anything they write multiple times.We're All DamagedThe End of the World Running ClubHandmaid's Tale Watership DownRiversDesperation RoadBull Mountain The Stand The Poisonwood Bible Black Beauty The Road... read once, will never read again, but it stuck. Lonesome Dove Gone With The Wind....of course Earth Abides A Brave New World

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